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ALANSQN BINGHAM, oF sURRY, NEW 11A-Mesures.

Letters Patent No. 67,485, dated August 6, 1867.

IMPROVED CHAIR-SEAT.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, ALANsoN BINGHAM, of Surry, in the county of Cheshire, and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chair-Seats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part ofthis speciication, in which- Figure 1 is e plan.

Figure 2 is a vertical section.

Figure 3, a plan, showing the mode of weaving the splints.

Figure 4, a section thereof; and

Figure 5, section, showing the inode of attaching the seat to the frame of the chair.

The same letters in all the figures are introduced in the indication of the same parts.

A is the seat of a chair made of splints, woven with regular spaces by means of the internal frame B, having projecting pins, D, at the proper intervals to guide the disposition ot' the splints as they are woven. When the seat has been woven the internal frame D is removed. The ends of the splints, when they have been woven, are bent over the edge of the splint-frame D, and passed into a slit cut from the side into the frame parallel to the top thereof, so that the splints are bent at two right angles. They are, after being thus inserted, secured by a strip, E, which is tacked or glued to the splint-frame D over the splints, thusfvconiining them in pince. This strip E may be a thin strip attached as described, orvit may bethe frame ot' the chair-seat itself, into vwhich the splint-frame (und splints) is made to fit neatly. The former construction is shown in the upper figure in fig. 2, and the latter construction is shown in the-lower section in said .figure Another form of construction is shown in -ig. 5, which may be adapted to other forms of seats than the splint-scats. lhe chair-frame F is constructed witha slight angc along its lower edge, upon which the adjustable seat-'frame rests. I make the woven seat, of whatever material, in two parts, which are similar above and below. These frames are luid together with the faces of the scat above and below on opposite sides. lVhen the splints become broken or stretched, or the other material which may be used worn, or in any Way impaired, the frame may be taken ont and reversed, so as to bring the side uppermost which has been turned down and not in use.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The combination of the splint A, slotted splint-treme D, and strips E or frame Ffor confining the ends of the splints, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the anged chair-seat frame F and double reversible seat-frames, substantially as and for purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALANSON BINGHAM.

Witn esses:

ALONZO KINGsLEY. SILAs HARDY. 

